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New York Times - United States
01 March 2009
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Two Officers Accused of Raping
Two police officers have been assigned to desk duty while prosecutors and the police investigate a complaint that at least one of them raped an intoxicated woman after they escorted her into her apartment in the East Village three months ago, the police said on Sunday.
Footage from a nearby bar’s video surveillance camera shows the two officers helping the woman into her building on Dec. 7 and returning twice during the next two hours, according to the bar owner, who provided the video to investigators.
The officers have been placed on modified duty and have had to turn in their guns and badges while investigators from the Police Department and the Manhattan district attorney’s office look into the accusations of rape and another accusation of drug possession, the police said. No arrests have been made, the police said.
“The Internal Affairs Bureau is conducting an investigation of the allegations,” said Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman. He declined to identify the officers or say whether they worked out of the Ninth Precinct, which includes the neighborhood where the woman lives. The district attorney’s office declined to comment through a spokeswoman.
Stephen C. Worth, a lawyer for one of the officers, denied the allegations.
“The district attorney’s office has taken some time in investigating this matter, and it is my expectation that at the conclusion of their investigation, they will determine that no crime was committed,” Mr. Worth said.
The owner of the bar, Heather Millstone, 34, said she gave the district attorney’s office footage from a camera near the door of the bar on East 13th Street after two women arrived on Dec. 7 and said their friend had been attacked in her nearby apartment early that morning. The woman, who her friends said was in a hospital, had told them, “ ‘I’ve been raped. It was the police,’ ” Ms. Millstone said.
The three of them watched the video, which includes a time stamp, Ms. Millstone said, and saw one officer arrive at 1:10 a.m. and open the front door of the building as a second officer helped the intoxicated woman inside. The friends said the woman had been sick in a taxicab, and the cab driver had called 911, Ms. Millstone said.
“She’s really clearly impaired” Ms. Millstone said.
The officers can be seen leaving the building seven minutes after they entered, she said. They returned 39 minutes later, at 1:59 a.m., and followed a resident who used a key to enter the building, Ms. Millstone said. One officer looked up and seemed to notice the camera, she said.
The officers can be seen leaving the second time after 17 minutes, seeming to move quickly out of the camera’s range, Ms. Millstone said.
The officers can be seen returning to the building the third time at 2:59 a.m., this time entering with a key, Ms. Millstone said. “They’re coming in from behind the camera, so that their backs are to the camera,” she said.
The officers are seen leaving the building 34 minutes later, at 3:33 a.m., for the last time, she said.
“We made copies of the video,” she said. “I gave the copies to her friends so she could give them to her lawyer and the lawyer could take them directly to the D.A.’s office.”
She said soon afterward she received a call from the district attorney’s office, “and they started their investigation.”
News of the investigation was reported on Sunday in The New York Post and The New York Daily News.
Mr. Worth declined to comment on the video, and refused to identify the lawyer for the other officer.
One of the officers also faces an allegation of drug possession after heroin was found in his locker during a search that followed the complaint, Mr. Browne said. Mr. Worth declined to comment on that allegation. A spokesman for the police officers’ union declined to comment on the case.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg mentioned the investigation on Sunday while speaking to reporters outside a church in Brooklyn. “It is a very serious charge, obviously, and I don’t want to prejudice anything, but you can rest assured that the Internal Affairs Bureau is working very hard and doing an investigation,” he said.
Martin Kynaston, an owner of Drop Off Service, a bar near the one owned by Ms. Millstone, said detectives visited him in December and asked for video footage, but would not say why.
“The police said we’d read about it in the newspapers,” Mr. Kynaston said.
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